title: A visit to Absurdistan: a nightmare of a sleep specialist.
abstract: During a nocturnal dream, the authors discover a strange and unknown country, Absurdistan. Absurdistanis main concern appears to be sleep, whether nocturnal or diurnal, rather than wakefulness. They are fond of sleeping in any form, and devote much time to this activity. The authors follow a guide that shows them all kinds of strange sleep habits and keeps explaining the complex as well as the obvious. As the journey evolves, the explanations turn more and more confusing, becoming also amazingly surrealistic. The dream ends with a welcome wakefulness leaving the authors unsure of which is the waking state and which the dream.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Médecine du sommeil et Service de pneumologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: daniel.rodenstein@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodenstein
authors.forename: Joaquin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duran Cantolla
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D056508:Sleep Medicine Specialty; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic